The standard units are different depending on which level you are on - namely, if you are playing the mission from Rivendell, it’s elves against goblins - but if you play the Black Gate Opens, it’s orcs and humans. Here’s where this game further differentiates itself from Fire Emblem. In their turn, a side is allowed to move units in each flank (left, right and middle) based on the number of command points granted by that side’s leaders. The Gameboy Advanced version of The Third Age is a turn-based strategy along the lines of Fire Emblem (a series I have already referenced but will be getting to soon, I swear.) Essentially, the good and evil sides each take a turn.

Both are drastically different from each other. There are two titles of this same name released by Electronic Arts (EA), in the same year (2004). The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (Gameboy Advanced) They had a way of doing their own thing, in lieu of being cheap tie-ins. So what puts The Third Age and Battle for Middle Eart h on that map? Where most movie tie-in games are cheap copies of something else, these two game series stood out. I’m here to remind the world of video game series that did something profound, and if not that, than something right. Much can be said with how that trilogy shaped the movie industry, and even how it shaped the fantasy setting… but this is about games. One such phenomenon was The Lord of the Rings series. There are a lot of movies which end up having tie-in video games the greater the phenomenon, the more tie-in games there are.

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